UK Government Considers Blockchain for ‘Digital Strategy’ Plan
Blockchain and smart contracts are to feature among the U.K. government’s key technologies as it works at pushing its digital strategy plan, in a policy paper unveiled earlier this month. The paper, UK Digital Strategy 2017, by the Department for Culture Media & Sport, highlights a number of areas, which are intended to support the advancement of the digital space in the U.K. The paper pinpoints the Digital Catapult Sector, ‘a space for technologists, creatives from business and academia to collaborate and develop their new ideas and showcase their products to the UK and the rest of....
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